April 11th, 2008
We already know that the new Coldplay album will be going by the name of Viva La Vida. Now, we also know the ten tracks that will make up the album, which is due out on June 16th.
In a blog post on their official website, Coldplay have announced the official track listing, which is as […]
By Dave Parrack -- 1 comment
January 27th, 2008
The Charlatans have announced that their new album You Cross My Path will be available as a free download from the Xfm.co.uk website for two months prior to getting a full physical release.
This will the long running British band’s tenth studio album, but first to go the way of digital downloads as it’s preferred […]
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December 23rd, 2007
Leon Jackson has made it to the top of the charts, and thus continued the trend for X Factor winners grabbing the Christmas number one.
Leona Lewis is still sitting at number one in the album charts, making it a clean sweep for the ITV music reality television show.
Leon won The X Factor last Saturday, […]
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November 21st, 2007
X Factor 2006 winner Leona Lewis has broken another record, this time for the fastest selling British début album of all time.
She already held one record previous to this week, after her debut single ‘A Moment Like This’ was downloaded 50,000 times in the first half hour of its release last December and sold […]
By Dave Parrack -- 3 comments
September 26th, 2007
The new Radiohead album has been recorded and mastered ready for release early next year, but more details than that have been hard to track down.
To give the fans some clues and to build the hype up ahead of the release, the British band have been leaving cryptic messages on their official website for […]
By Dave Parrack -- 1 comment
August 25th, 2007
Last month Prince gave his brand new album ‘Planet Earth’ away with a British newspaper. To celebrate this, I held a contest where one lucky reader of Brit Music Scene could win a copy of the album.
The lucky winner was JM from that little country they call Australia, and I dispatched the album to her […]
By Dave Parrack -- 2 comments
July 17th, 2007
Prince is American, always has been, always will be, I know this, you don’t need to tell me. So why then am I reviewing his new album Planet Earth on a British Music blog? Well, although I’ll be mainly covering British bands and singers, I reserve the right to occasionally review or talk about bands […]
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July 12th, 2007
We all know single sales have been dropping for a good while, and that to be Number 1 in the charts now takes a lot less effort now than 2 years ago. But it seems that album sales are dropping now too.
Album sales are down by 10% in the first half of 2007, according to […]
By Dave Parrack -- 2 comments
July 12th, 2007
I love Art Brut. I felt I should say that before I start the album review so there’s no thoughts of a conflict of interest. I first heard of them in 2004 when ‘Formed a band’ and ‘Modern Art’ started being played on MTV2 and Radio 1. I remember ‘Emily Kane’ being released as a […]
By Dave Parrack -- 5 comments
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